We have a 2023 Tesla Model 3 Performance in Abu Dhabi and it has been faultless.
Build quality is very good - but the car does not have the luxury features of high end German brands, for instance.
Our car has Enhanced Auto Pilot and early this week we received the latest OTA software update that now gives us Actually Smart Summon.
I tried it as our local shopping centre in Yas the other day - it’s amazing!
I had parked the car as normal and went into the shops. When I came out, I stood at the entrance and activated the Actually Smart Summon on my phone.
The car was parked around 25m from where I was standing. I asked it to “come to me” on the app.
The car then put on all its lights, drove forward from the parking bay, turned left and drove forward, then it turned and headed towards the area I was standing, put on its indicator to show it was turning into the kerb and stopped right by me.
Interestingly I repeated the exercise last night and instead of turning left out of the space - it turned right ( to avoid another car in an opposite bay that had started to move forward). It then proceeded right around the car park and came to me from the other direction!
It’s an interesting party trick, for sure!
Now just waiting for “Banish” to be released - you will exit the car at the entrance to the shops and the car will find an empty parking space and park itself, apparently!
Few photos below of our car.
Did not like the 1970’s British Leyland wood trim on the dash - so immediately changed that to carbon fibre trim!
Cars here tend to be heavily tinted (up to 50% tint is allowed) ours has 40% tint.
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